Len,
> >I find that as soon as I restart the SMTP service it seems to
> authenticate
> >fine immediately.
>
> The SMTPD service that does the SMTP AUTH is either failing (the mail
> client program see the smtp auth attempt rejected as bad user) or not
> returning when called by the master SMTPD service that called the
> SMTP AUTH
> process (the mail client program just hangs, no progress). Which is it
> with your clients? failure or hanging?
The client (generally Outlook or Outlook Express) pops-up the 'enter login
information' dialogue repeatedly until it fails. The username and password
being entered is correct.
> >I'm stumped and a little frustrated. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> There's no silver bullet, but try re-installing SP6a.
Oh dear. That'll be a last resort.
Thanks for your comments!
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